Above: Hurricane Andrew Carved Its Way Through The Bahamas And Hit South Florida With A Powerhouse Intensity Before Moving Into Louisiana, The Hurricane's 54 -Hour Rampage, The Most Expensive Natural Disaster Ever To Hit This Country, Left An Estimated 180,000 Homeless In Flotida Alone, Below: Basketball Great Larry Bird Retired From The Boston Celtics After A 13-Year Career. The 35-Year-Old Bird Was Plagued By Back Problems For The Last Two Seasons Of His Career But His BriUiant Passing, Pinpoint Shooting And Rebounding Made Him The Consumate Team Player. Above: Bill Clinton Stepped Into The National Spotlight And Won The Nomination At The Democratic Convention In A Hot July Week In New York City. Clinton, A Former Rhodes Scholar At Oxford University And A Graduate Of Yale Law School, Was Governor Of Arkansas When He Decided To Enter The National Race. As His Running Mate, He Chose Al Gore, Who Was Elected To The House Of Representatives At The Age Of 28 In His First Campaign For Public Office. He Was Elected To The Senate In 1984.

Right: The U.S. Marines Arrived In Somalia On Dec. 9, 1992. The Starving African Country Was Ravaged By Famine And Widespread Looting Of Food From International Relief Agencies. The Marines Offered A Security Force To Insure Safe Food Distribution. Below Left: Serbian Soldiers In Bosnia.

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Bottom: The Prices On The Tokyo Stock Exchange Once Seemed So Invulnerable To The Laws Of Gravity That They Came To Symbolize Japan's Meteoric Rise As The Dominant World Economic Power, When the Nikkei Stock Average, The Main Index Of The Tokyo Stock Exchange, Began Slipping In 1990, Economists Said The Weakening Financial Markets Had Little To Do With Japan's "Real" Economy, Which Was Still Going Strong. In Late 1992, They Say That Not Only Does The Nikkei's Weakness Reflect A Return To Reality, But Its Fall Could Threaten Japan's Economic Health, Left: When a jury found four white police offi cers innocent of any wrong -doing in the Rodney King beating, three days of rioting hit Los Angeles, When it ended, 52 people were dead, 2,383 were injured, 18,807 were arresred, and the amount of properry damage was estimated at $785 million.

Below Left: Recycling has become the way of life for most Americans, and a business alli ance for the National Recycling Coalition is campaigning to encourage small and large businesses to commit themselves to buy re cycled products.

Below Right: In early 1992 BOUTROS BOU- TROS-GHALI became the world's top dip lomat, Secretary General of the United Na tions. Top: U.S. And Allied Aircraft Attacked Strategic Targets In Iraq In Early January. The First Attack Hit A Nuclear Complex Near The Capital City Of Baghdad, Followed By Other Strategic Hits On Iraqi Missile Sites. Many Of The U.S, Aircraft That Flew Raids Over Iraq Were Based On The USS Kitty Hawk.

Above Left: Ross Perot Abruptly Ended His Run For The Presidency In July But Then Got Back Inro The Race Five Weeks Before Election Day.

Above Right: Former Miss America, "Vanessa Williams Launched A 'Very Successful Career As An Actress And Singer. Her #1 Single, Save The Best For Last, Was Nominated In 1992 For Song Of The Year. i Left: Barcelona, Spain, Hosted The Summer Olympics In 1992 And It Proved To Be A Bonanza For The With A Total Of 108 Medals, A Record 10,000 Athletes, Professional And Amateur, From 183 Countries Gathered In This Rapidly Modernized Metropolis. Mary Ellen Clark Won The Bronzed From The 10 Meter Platform,

Below: The Environmental Protection Agency Issued Rules Outlining When Businesses Must Obtain State Pollution Control Permits Under The Clean Air Act.

Bottom Left: Carl Lewis Won Two Gold Medals In The 1992 Summer Olympics. One For The Long Jump And One In The 400 -Meter Relay.

Bottom Right: Boris Yeltsin Was Elected President Of The Russian Federation In 1991 With Economic Reform As His Main Goal. However, By 1992 Yeltsin's Reforms Increased Prices By As Much As 1,500 Percent And Many Russians Felt That The Reforms Had Damaged Their Living Standards Significantly.